You'll often hear sportspeople say "grand finals don't come around very often" and now a huge number of cricket teams in Armidale won't have the chance to play theirs.
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Sporting codes have shut down their seasons due to the coronavirus and cricket is no exception Saturday's scheduled senior grand finals cancelled and the junior deciders the following Saturday also off.
A decision is yet to be made on how to award this season's premiership across all grades with associations learning of the recommendation on Tuesday.
Armidale District Cricket Association have given clubs who have qualified for grand finals the option of playing at the beginning of next season or joint premiers to be declared.
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On Tuesday, Cricket Australia released a recommendation to cancel remaining competition matches across "expects that all Premier and Community Cricket competitions cancel all cricket activity for the remainder of the 2019-20 season."
Central North Zone's Hayley Bullock added to this in a release to associations:
"For all this now means that competitions will be ceased regardless of whether they are completed or not. Cricket Australia also strongly recommends that end of season award presentations be cancelled or postponed in light of the public health environment," she said.
Armidale City UNE first grade captain Karl Triebe, who was due to play on Saturday, reacted to the cancellation.
"I was looking forward to it too because they [Guyra] are good bunch of guys and it would be a good, competitive game, it is just a shame," he said.
"It is the least contact sport out there and I think it is a joke, especially in a small town like ours as well where you aren't exactly going to get big crowds.
"No cases in Armidale at the moment so no reason why we shouldn't go ahead with our local sport.
"Yeah if a couple of cases came out, take precautions, but it is not the case at the moment, it is just a knee-jerk reaction."
Triebe said the announcement from Cricket Australia didn't say it was compulsory to ban matches.
"I saw the post from Cricket Australia and it was a recommendation, it wasn't a flat 'you can't play' so I would urge the association to re-look at it," he said.
"Fair enough when you've got lots of people about but in a small town like Armidale it is a bit of an overreaction.
"Even just ban spectators and have 24 people with the umpires at the ground, it is hardly going to be a dangerous situation.
"There's more people down at the shops fighting over toilet paper than on the cricket field."
Other sports have also postponed and cancelled their seasons.